Fantasy Snowfall League 2014

By: By Jon Erdman

Published: January 10,2014

Fantasy Snowfall League 2014 week 1 results. (Note: South Bend, Ind. was removed from the city list, as they are not reporting daily snowfall totals as of Jan. 1.)

The first "week" is in the books in our 2014 Fantasy Snowfall League. You can see the results for each of our cities in the table at left, to help tabulate how your team did.
What is Fantasy Snowfall, you ask? Here's how we're doing our league.
Winter Weather Expert and League Commissioner, Tom Niziol (Facebook | Twitter), chose cities from the Northwest to New England, with average annual snowfall ranging from over 10 feet to just over 44 inches.
Here at The Weather Channel, each of four teams drafted a roster of six cities. Each team will submit a lineup of four cities they believe will get the most snowfall during the upcoming week. The other two cities on the team's roster are benched for that week.
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At the end of the completed week (early Friday morning), we tabulate snowfall totals for each team's starting lineup. The highest cumulative score at the end of March wins the league.
Sound like fun? You can play as well. Find some friends to start up your own league. Draft your teams from Tom Niziol's list (in the inset graphics above), set your starting lineups each week, and follow along.
Play begins on January 1, and continues through March 31, 2014. The second week spans from Jan. 10-16. We'll reveal week 2 results here on Friday morning, Jan. 17 for all 30 cities.

Warwick (N.Y.) Middle School will be playing Fantasy Snowfall for the second year in a row. (Photo credit: Mr. Richard Ronzoni)

Bozeman Middle School is playing Fantasy Snowfall for the first time this year. (Photo credit: Mr. Matt Barefield)

This year, two teams of students from Warwick Middle School in Warwick, N.Y. and Bozeman Middle School in Bozeman, Mont. have joined our league to take on The Weather Channel team of Mike Bettes and Maria LaRosa, as well as the weather.com "Digital Dendrites" (Jonathan Erdman, Chris Dolce, Nick Wiltgen).
In week 1, here's how our league performed:
- Warwick M.S.:  48.4 inches
- Bozeman M.S.:  34.2 inches
- weather.com:  32 inches
- The Weather Channel:  16.8 inches
Clearly, making a starting lineup call over a week prior to the start of week 1 hamstrung The Weather Channel team of Bettes and LaRosa, as bench-warmer Worcester, Mass. picked up over 10 inches of snow.
Warwich and Bozeman Middle Schools rocked their weeks thanks to Detroit (22.4 inches) and Buffalo (24.4 inches), respectively. Way to go, guys!
(RECAP: 2013 Fantasy Snowfall League)
Use the hashtag #fantasysnow to poke fun, brag, or otherwise take the Fantasy Snowfall League conversation to social media.
Have fun and good luck, everyone!
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40. Texas: 33 inches

33 inches of snow were measured near Vega, west of Amarillo, on Feb. 7, 1956. Image: A Dallas police car is covered by snow outside the Super Bowl XLV Media Center on Feb. 4, 2011. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)